Pain pushed its way out from my deepest wounds.I screamed in ecstasy as it slithered out of meand crawled onto my naked chest.

I held it softly,hungry,exhausted.

[Jennifer Lothrigel is a poet and artist residing in the San Francisco Bay area. She has just published her first chapbook through Liquid Light Press, titled ‘Pneuma’. Her work has also been published in The Bitter Oleander, Poetry Quarterly, The Haight Ashbury Journal, NILVX, and elsewhere.]

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